According to Sahara Reporters, this picture shows Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankaso and some of his officials sweeping off President Jonathan's feet from the venue of the PDP rally that held this morning in the state.

SaharaReporters has just learned that suspected members of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, have abducted 103 students in a daring raid at the Girls Secondary School in Chibok, a town on the border between Borno and Adamawa States.

A 43-year-old herbalist, Adeyemi Sakiru, has been arraigned before the Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s court, for allegedly defrauding a banker, Ayokunle Adebayo, of N2m. Sakiru, who allegedly claimed to be a licensed traditionalist in Lagos State, was also said to have threatened to kill Adebayo’s aunt after the latter demanded the refund of the money.

Residents of OMPADEC area in the Amarata suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, were yesterday, gripped with fear, following the shooting to death of an 18-year- old youth by armed men suspected to be cultists.

A 22-year-old woman had a close shave with death last Saturday at a hotel in FESTAC Town, Lagos. She was allegedly drugged by a South African businessman until she went into coma.

The incident occurred at Carlton Gate Hotel, 7th Avenue area of the town in the evening on that day. It was gathered that the victim, Awe Rebecca, a resident of 21, Gani Adams Street, Shoba Town, came into the hotel about 3pm to meet a guest who was already lodged in a room.

The hotel’s manager, Andrew Iyere, said after about two hours in the room, the guest came down and stood by the stair-case, inviting a porter into his room.

The robbery gang, it was learnt, robbed the company of soap, noodles and chemicals worth N17m. After the robbery, SARS detectives launched an investigation into the case and the prime suspects were arrested in February.

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State, has arrested a gang,which, operating in military camouflage and merchant navy uniforms, attacked Reckitt-Benckiser pharmaceutical 15 times and even raped female residents at the Agbara area of Ogun State.